Former Chinese premier Li Peng – known for his role in the Tiananmen Square crackdown – has died aged 90, state broadcaster Xinhua said on Tuesday
The former chairman of the National People’s Congress Standing Committee died of “illness” in Beijing on Monday, Xinhua said.
The ex-premier had previously battled bladder cancer.
Li gained notoriety worldwide as one of the key architects of the brutal breakup of mass pro-democracy demonstrations in the capital on June 4, 1989, and stayed at the top of the Communist regime for more than a decade.
After vast crowds of students, workers and others had been encamped for weeks in Tiananmen Square to demand change, Li proclaimed martial law on May 20, 1989.
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